Total cost analysis: An alternative to benefit-cost analysis in evaluating transportation alternatives

This paper explains the theory in support of total cost analysis (TCA) to compare transportation system alternatives. The full costs of each alternative are first aggregated, including travel time costs and monetizable environmental and social costs. Many costs which are considered on the benefits side of the equation in benefit-cost analysis (BCA) as "cost savings" are brought over to the costs side. Total cost differences among alternatives are then traded off against their estimated non-monetized benefits or impacts, just as a consumer trades off product quality against cost before deciding which product he or she will buy. One advantage of TCA over traditional BCA is that the concept of "total cost" is more easily understood by the public and by political decision-makers than BCA concepts such as "net present worth", "benefit-cost ratio" and "internal rate of return". A second advantage is that there is no suggestion that all "benefits" have been considered; decision-makers are free to use their own value judgements to trade off total cost against non-monetizable social, environmental and economic impacts, just as they trade off quality and convenience against cost when purchasing goods and services in their roles as consumers. The TCA approach is demonstrated in this paper through a case study of two systemwide alternatives for the Baltimore, MD urban area.     

轮式装载机轮胎的使用与管理

加强轮胎的使用管理对装载机的保值、增值具有重大意义.针对不同工作状况,从保护轮胎的角度介绍了装载机使用和管理过程中应注意的事项.     

超大跨度缆索承重桥梁结构体系

设计和建造跨海连岛大桥是新世纪桥梁工程面临的巨大挑战。超大跨度桥梁并不只是常规概念的外推,需要与之对应的结构体系。从根本上改变缆索承重桥梁的缆索体系,可以突破跨度极限。本文指出了常规结构体系向更大跨度发展的制约因素,从缆索体系的角度介绍了超大跨度斜拉桥、悬索桥以及斜拉 悬索组合桥可能采用的各种体系。这些体系试图在静力、动力方面能远远超出现有限制范围,极大地提高桥梁的跨越能力。同时,新体系的采用也给材料、设计和施工提出了很大的挑战。     

宁夏地区沥青路面养护专家系统的开发

传统的项目层次的沥青路面养护决策方法是依靠养护工程师在现场进行评价决策,这种传统的决策方法虽然准确有效,但也存在效率低、决策有差异性、区域性养护标准不统一等问题。本研究通过对宁夏地区普通公路养护专家知识和经验的提取,建立了一套基于路面管理系统(CPMS)数据库和专家知识的沥青路面养护专家系统,它能够解决基层公路管理部门所面临的养护决策问题,是对CPMS网级系统的补充和对CPMS技术的完善。     

筑路设备维修的经济分析

利用经济学基本原理,阐述如何对设备的维修工作进行效益分析,对提高施工企业的设备维修管理水平具有一定的借鉴作用.     

谈柴油机废气涡轮增压器的正确使用及故障分析

简要介绍了柴油机废气涡轮增压器的基本工作原理。阐述了对柴油机增压器的正确使用、维护以及常见故障分析。     

工程机械管理及维护系统的设计与开发

从预防性维护的角度出发,提出了工程机械管理及维护系统的设计与开发思路.介绍了系统的设计原理,主要功能模块,工作流程和技术特点.系统集机械台帐管理、状态检测、维护保养、故障诊断、维修等模块于一体,适用于多数公路企业的机械管理工作,对提高公路企业的管理水平和工作效率具有重要的意义.     

路面铣刨机械的养护

通过对路面铣刨机铣削装置的工作方式、工作原理的理论分析,针对路面铣刨机在正常作业过程中零件磨损的现象,探讨了一些养护方法,提出了路面铣刨机械的一些养护措施,对铣刨机的合理使用与维护具有重要意义.     

Integrated approach to determine highway flooding and critical points of drainage

Among the natural hazards that threaten transportation infrastructure, flooding represents a major hazard to highways as it challenges their design, operation, efficiency and safety. In extreme cases, it may lead to massive obstruction of traffic and direct damages to the road structures themselves and indirect damages to the economic activity and development of the region. To enable the prevention of such consequences, and the proposition of adaptive measures for existing infrastructure, this paper presents an integrated framework to identify the most vulnerable points to flooding along a highway. This is done through the combination of remote sensing information (e.g. LiDAR based Digital Elevation Model, satellite imagery), a high-quality dataset, and a quasi-2D hydrodynamic model. The forcing condition is defined using a hyetograph associated to a storm with duration of 1 day and return period of 100 years. The selected highway is located in the Mexican state of Tabasco, where extreme precipitation events and floods are frequent. Results demonstrate the ability of the methodology to identify critical water levels along the road (h > 1.50 m) at those locations where flooding has been experienced, as well as points of inspection for the highway drainage. These locations were visited in the field and maintenance problems were detected that do increase its level of exposure. We show that this framework is useful for the generation of a flood management strategy to the analyzed highway, which includes an optimum location of adaptive measures to an anticipated more intense future climate.